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SECURE YOUR PHONE WITH ANDROID DEVICE MNAGER

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Set-Up2

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Introduction

Smartphones have become an intrinsic part of our daily life, and without them, we feel like only half a person. We spend hundreds of dollars to buy a smartphone with high-end features and store or share our personal data with friends of family members. But, unfortunately, what if your phone is stolen or misplaced? How to locate your phone or at least wipe the sensitive data?

Don’t worry; Android has a solution for you!Android has a great native tool, Android Device Manager which helps to locate your device and remotely wipe all the data from the phone.

However, you need to set up Google account to your phone and can use any online device to track it down or to wipe the data. The important thing, though, is that you need to have it set up and ready.

If your Android phone or tablet device is lost, misplaced, or stolen, you could use Android Device Manager (ADM) to:

Find the device: It shows your device’s location. Ring, lock, and erase all data from the device: It helps to remotely ring or lock your device, erase

everything on it (Device no longer can be tracked), or to add a phone number to the lock screen.

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Setup

Step 1: Switch ADM ON or OFFLogin to your Google account and make sure ADM is turned on. If you have a device with more than one user, only the device owner can control this setting

1. Open device’s Settings app in your android phone.2. Tap Security –> Device administrators and activate the Android Device Manager.3. In the Settings screen, tap Google –> Security. Under “Android Device Manager,” activate Remotely locate this device and Allow remote lock and erase. (Android versions below 6.0 can activate these options from Google Settings app )

Note: If you want to use ADM, make sure you login to your Google Account on your device

Step 2: Make sure the Location access is ON

To use ADM, you need to have location access turned ON. If your Location access is turned OFF, here’s how to turn it ON:1. Open device’s Settings app in your android phone.2. Scroll down and tap Location settings.3. At the top, tap on switch to ON.

Step 3: Check whether Android Device Manager can find your device

After turn ON ADM, it is time to check whether it is working properly or not. Sign into your Google Account on android.com/devicemanager and check whether your device shows up. If you have more than one device signed into same Google account, you will probably see a map with your current location, and the model of your phone listed below. You can also see when you located it last, and where it is on the map. If you have multiple devices and have set up ADM on them, you will find them in the drop-down list at the bottom.

Locate, Ring, Lock and Erase your misplaced android device over the Internet

Have you ever misplaced your phone in between the couch cushions or left it in a restaurant? ADM allows you quickly ring your phone at maximum volume to help you find it even if it’s been in silence mode.

You can also add a screen lock to your device through the Android Device Manager over the internet. Whether it is a phone or a tablet, screen lock is an important security step to safeguard the information stored on your device if it accidentally gets into the wrong people hands. Being able to do this through the ADM means that even after you lose your phone, you will still be able to add a lock (if there is no lock) to your device.

The Lock option will allow setting or changing a PIN or password on your device, as well as display a message on the locked screen (if any recovery message is given) and also you can provide the alternate phone number to call. This is useful if you think someone else may come across your phone and you never set up a password.

Wiping a phone’s data that has gone forever. Be aware that everything is gone when and if you do this, and your phone will be back to the same settings as it was in the brand new phone in the box.

This means that the ADM app, associated Google account will be deactivated and you will no longer be able to track the device. This will be helpful if your phone can not be recovered or has been stolen to erase all of the data quickly.

Conclusion

Android Device Manager is the best way to find your lost or stolen android device. Let’s take advantage of this tool. Google had developed this amazing tool but will be helpful only when the device is connected to the internet connection. Hopefully, Google may soon release its offline feature to find the lost devices.

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